Thread: Man sent to jail for nurse's death

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Thursday, March 1, 2007



Man sent to jail for nurse's death

Associated Press

CEDAR CITY — An illegal immigrant blamed for the death of a nurse who stopped to check his overturned truck was sentenced to 18 months in jail for negligent homicide.
"This is something that he feels horribly about," said Jeff Slack, attorney for Florencio Bernal.
Bernal went home and fell asleep, leaving his overturned pickup truck on State Road 56 on Jan. 28.
VerLee Hunt, 57, was driving to her job at a hospital, saw the truck and stopped to check if anyone was inside.
A Chevy Suburban carrying five people on the same road slammed into the truck and Hunt's vehicle, killing her.
Bernal pleaded guilty to negligent homicide and was sentenced Monday to the Iron County Jail.
Slack said Bernal waited 15 to 20 minutes, then went home to take medicine for a sore back.
Bernal eventually will be turned over to immigration agents, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

An illegal immigrant blamed for the death of a nurse who stopped to check his overturned truck was sentenced to 18 months in jail for negligent homicide.

So killing an innocent person in America is now punishable by 18 months in jail? So after he's served his time and is deported, he be able to come back within two years, free to do it all over again. How convenient. We wouldn't want to deprive any crooked employers the services of his illegal labor.

Bernal went home and fell asleep, leaving his overturned pickup truck on State Road 56 on Jan. 28.

Slack said Bernal waited 15 to 20 minutes, then went home to take medicine for a sore back.

Well heck, he did wait 15 or 20 minutes before taking off and going home and going to sleep. He can't be expected to wait around for the authorities to arrive and find the people he killed, after all he did have a sore back. I'm sure he does really bad for the death he caused, after all he did wait 15 or 20 minutes before fleeing the scene of the killing he committed.